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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (20 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the arrangements that were made with banks to provide letters of refusal in the context of the new local authority mortgage scheme; the options available in cases in which refusals are occurring but the banks or building societies will not provide a letter to this effect; if this situation was anticipated; if discussions...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Meters Data (20 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if new build commercial and residential structures are supplied with a water meter; the body responsible for its installation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8211/18]

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I ask that Standing Orders be suspended to allow Deputies to contribute. It is not the case that we intentionally decided not to appear in the Chamber or that we were not following the debate. We draw up rotas of speakers for a legitimate reason. As Deputies have prepared for this debate, I ask that Standing Orders be suspended to allow us to make our contributions.

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I made inquiries several times today because I would not have been able to contribute today if speakers from two of the groups that had indicated an intention to speak had done so. I had been monitoring the position and made inquiries throughout the day. When I saw the Minister rise to speak, I rang to ask what was happening. A degree of fairness should be shown.

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Acting Chairman have a list of speakers in front of him?

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The Bills Office informed me that my name was on a list, as were the names of other Deputies, including Deputies Clare Daly and Stephen S. Donnelly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It started a pilot project in 2010 and it is now 2018. It speaks about a culture of openness and transparency built into the HSE's governance for quality and patient safety. Unless what we are routinely seeing coming through are very historical cases there is not a great deal of evidence it is translating into anything. An evaluation of the pilot has been done by Dr. Jane Pillinger. I have...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Not only that, it is also very poor practice from the point of view of people and the impact it has on them. Maybe we also need to look at the evidence from that evaluation as part of it so that we would have the HSE, the State Claims Agency and perhaps Dr. Jane Pillinger before the committee first. It would not necessarily be on a different day, but we might have a more informed discussion...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: We only need look at what was in the news this week about machinery and how there were failures in how it was dealt with at individual hospital level. There is definitely a cultural issue. I know that changes slowly but it does not change at all if a sector is not deliberate in bringing a pace to the change.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I thought the attitude was almost that by questioning something, one was put into the anti-enterprise box, which is not what was intended. Very often, industry wants to locate close to universities and does that for a range of different reasons. Much of it has to do with partnering with universities. There is no doubt there is a benefit and there can be a two-way benefit. A lot of that is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit Knowledge Transfer Ireland? What is its status?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Is it in the Department or is it in Enterprise Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It would be useful to see the architecture of this because that will tell us something about what is driving it as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Because some whistleblowers would take issue with this report. Therefore, there is something to go back to in that regard.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Journalists also fault us all the time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Motor tax was ring-fenced in 1997 and was to go into the local government fund. There have obviously been changes relating to local property tax and a phasing out of that over the last few years. I am not sure that there is even such a thing as a local government fund now. The Chairman has mentioned a number of different streams of funding to local authorities in addition to those...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: There have been changes over the years. We go back to the needs and resources model for distribution and that is largely still in place with regard to the issue I have raised about baselines which are set by local authorities that do not factor in population growth at all. There was a ring-fenced fund for motor tax receipts. That has been phased out. There is not really a local government...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: -----of the major funding aspects. Additionally, it should provide information on what other Departments have a role in funding local authorities.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The way pensions are treated is new too because that has impacted on the baselines. It might be small in the overall scheme of things but we need to have as coherent a picture as possible.